skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO Slippery slope arguments can definitely be valid. Slippery slope fallacies are failed slippery slope arguments. To successfully argue for the slippery slope, one needs to actually argue that the slope exists and will lead to the ultimate consequence with meaningful certainty. The tactic is so common in sophistry: merely stating A -> B -> C -> D -> "nuclear holocaust" does not make it so.

Like... if an event has an 80% chance of occurring as a result of an action, it seems that the event is highly likely to occur. If this has an 80% chance causing of a different event, which has an 80% chance of a different event, leading to an 80% chance of a different event, the probability of the final event from a point in time before the first event occurred would be 41%.

Arguments are a construction of information intended to induce an understanding of probability among others, and skipping steps along the way weakens trust in that conclusion.
It is unprecedented for buying to be stopped for retail investors while still allowing buying from institutional investors.
> I will most certainly take care to properly read and understand

And when you don't understand the dense legalese how did you get clarification? Did you pay a few hundred dollars to have a lawyer review the contract and explain it to you? Perhaps call the company up to have a minimum wage call center employee explain it to you? Or just come up with an interpretation of the text that seems to make sense and conclude that must be what they mean?

After awhile even doing that grows tiresome for all but the most important services. So, we really do need something better.
State Farm Arena video doesn’t show fraud to any reasonable degree, at the absolute best it’s an irregularity. The Antirim report is massively flawed, written by an ‘expert’ with no credibility who used Minnesota counties to ‘prove’ Michigan fraud. Hand waving at ‘affidavits’ is not evidence. The statistics arguments don’t stand scrutiny when known limitations like sample size, turnout volatility and count completion are taken into account.

Bundling together lots of individual garbage theories into giant piles doesn’t net you anything other than garbage theories, just like bundling bad mortgage securities didn’t mitigate risk in the subprime crisis.

Instead of saying ‘lots of statistical algorithms,’ name one, or even two, that stand up to genuine scrutiny (and that aren’t the readily debunked Charles J. Cicchetti claims.) Don’t hide behind the sheer number of crackpot theories. Or, you know, admit you have nothing but a hunch based on cognitive dissonance.
I would agree on BMP being slightly insane, since there's a number of things you have to magically know about it:

1) If using 8 bits per pixel or less, there's always a color palette between the header and bitmap. If more than 8bpp, then there's none.

2) If more or equal to 8BPP, you must know that you must always use Bitfields to specify which bytes correspond to which RGB(A) channels, and that there cannot be any overlap between the channel masks.

3) There's no intuitive way to tell which version of the Bitmap file you have (there's like 5 major versions).

4) You can specify, inline, the Chromaticity and Gamma (basically an inline color profile) somewhere in the headers.

5) You can also append an ICC profile directly into the file, OR, store a Windows-style filesystem path to the profile (in which case, you must know to ignore the in-header color profile, if you have one).

6) You must know that RLE compression only works if the RGB channels cleanly map to one-byte-each (no packing).

7) RLE compression doesn't work if you use a negative height (to indicate the image is encoded from top-to-bottom, rather than the standard bottom-to-top).

8) The (un)official documentation Microsoft hosts states that BMP files can also store PNG or JPEG bitstream data, but yet no application that I've seen has ever explicitly supported this.

9) You have to know that Windows only supports 2 or so variations of packed 16-bit BMP files (565, etc).

For the most part you can just assume you're dealing with a v5 BMP file, read or write the most pertinent parts like the dimensions (skipping dumb stuff like ICC profiles, pixels-per-meter and whatnot), and just have your way with the raw data. But there is still some dumb stuff in there that shouldn't be there, considering it should be a straight-forward format. What also baffles me is that even with the bloat Microsoft added to the format, BMP isn't even extensible. So it's kinda the worst of both: It's slightly complicated to the point of not being straight-foward to work with, and yet, you can't add extra info/metadata to it.

On that note, Targa is a dreamy image format. It's got a simple 18-byte or so header, and then the raw data. And, optionally, for Targa v2 you can append a few bytes in a footer that indicate an offset for an optional standard-targa-metadata area, as well as an option metadata area for your data you wish to add to the file. Followed by a magic string, that explicitly indicate you're using v2 of the Targa spec.
Yes. Happens with regularity.
I found a previous HN submission very helpful:
https://evamaerey.github.io/ggplot_flipbook/ggplot_flipbook_...

The author builds up plots step by step, showing the changes to the plot along the way. It's really great at showing what each element contributes to the final plot.
In addition to the class relief, they're also asking for an immediate injunction to reinstate GME. Good.
citadel only handles like 10% of their order flow. the rest is other companies. including Apex clearing which also handles it for Webull and other platforms that halted trading
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Indeed. It's very situational but I feel like the hype cycle is driving architecture stronger than ever at present.
You are missing the entire point here.

Stocks are not valued based on what they earned last year. They are valued based on whether people think owning them will earn them a profit in the future.

You can certainly wait until a company has proven itself to invest in them. The problem with that is you will never get more than marginal returns. If you waited until Amazon was fairly valued, you'd probably still be sitting on the sidelines. Likewise with Apple.

If you want guaranteed returns, you buy boring things like utility stocks and accept your 4% dividend and 5-10% growth. If you want bigger returns, you absolutely have to invest in things which some people consider over-valued. There is no other way. You just have to be good at picking which companies are going to be successful.

Tesla, the jury is still out. I'm playing with the house's money at this point though. I am confident they aren't going to crash and burn entirely though.

Comparing them to Gamestop doesn't make sense. Outside Reddit, there is no story with Gamestop. Tesla has products and growth, it's just a matter of finding where that growth ends.
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Gold price dictates how many shovels are being sold.

Similarly BTC prices dictates gross volumes.
"To be clear, this was a risk-management decision, and was not made on the direction of the market makers we route to."

Uh huh...
>Citadel, and other trade executors, are refusing to buy shares for retail traders.

Any evidence on this? RH said the opposite:

>To be clear, this was a risk-management decision, and was not made on the direction of the market makers we route to. We’re beginning to open up trading for some of these securities in a responsible manner.
They are collecting interest from hedgefunds for the short positions and collecting interest from brokerages for capital they provide for margin accounts. They win no matter what.
I don't believe them. I presume most people won't either.
Oh come off it. There was no "insurrection at the capital." There was a bunch of rowdy types running around with their shirts off and a bunch of old people taking selfies. A few bad things happen. I'd call it a mostly peaceful protest and you would too if you were using objective criteria that was equally applied.
Thank you for this example, this really improved my understanding
That sound you hear is the evaporation of billions in pre-IPO Robinhood equity vanishing based on both a poor decision (to disallow buying of a stock that others could still buy) and worse, poor execution on their site that didn't make it clear how narrow the blocking was.

Those customers who have left Robinhood will never come back and it will take years to recover, if ever.
Additionally, I speculate that Citadel/RH/IBKR and any other brokers that stopped buys on GME/AMC had sign-off from regulators (SEC etc.) where the fines they will surely incur would be limited to non-existent.

Not only hedge funds and brokers colluding against the retail investors, but the government as well. Yeah...sounds about right.
Thank you for being honest about it. As far as I understand, not reading the terms of a contract you agree to is not a defense, assuming the TOS are presented clearly and you acknowledge your acceptance with some unambiguous action. You don't have to read the terms, but you are bound by them anyway if you agree to them.
The much more obvious and likely reason is it's because she was fearing rape and possibly murder just a few weeks ago, when the Capitol was stormed. As it was later revealed, there were people targeting AOC and Pelosi specifically. And those extremists are constantly egged on by Cruz and his ilk. Blaming this on cancel culture is just.. Odd
There are engineers with 10 times one year of experience and others with ten years of experience.

Believe me they are very different.
You people? Seriously?
I followed the analogy, this is incredibly detailed and makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the detail in this comment!
Do you believe that the Tesla buyers are trying to manipulate the market, and have no expectation that the company itself is valuable?
Yeah, funny how the solution to all the inherent problems with blockchains is to move off the blockchain. The future of "DeFi" is centralization.
>A quick search with my favorite search engine for "bowing to US pressure" returns many results by a variety of reputable outlets.

They are mostly (or all I could find on the first pages) about other countries or international organizations, so I'd say there is at least some difference.
None of my programs work with Wayland. So why would I use XWayland when I can just use X.org?
An unsettled ACH withdrawal that you initiated does not cause massive risk. It's a two-day float. There's no way to undo an ACH transfer; it's guaranteed funds. Even if you lose all of it, it doesn't matter, since they'll be paid back once the check clears.
My bad. I don’t know how to read Twitter.
Too little too late as far as brand reputation. Feels like #DeleteUber on steroids.
The Parler ban was a response from service providers so that they are not blamed for what their users (Parler) do (controversial opinion).

The GME/etc ban is a response from Robinhood so that they are not blamed for what theirs users (retail inverstors) do (controversial trading activities/losing money).
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I've been a consultant for over a decade and lately decided to take a job offer at a company that I genuinely like, but the problem is the language they use is one I've never used before. I disclosed that with them when I first applied for the position, and have learned a bit about it, but now I'm afraid that they'd get frustrated with me or fire me if I don't catch up quickly.

Does anyone have a similar experience, or any tips for me?
I believe GP was specifically referring to Citadel, nee SAC: https://popular.info/p/the-merry-adventures-of-robinhood
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> Government has chosen atheism as its religion.

All the cash in my wallet says otherwise.
Sharing my lookup of jabberwocky.

> n. Nonsensical speech or writing.
> adj. meaningless, worthless
> adj. absurd, nonsense, non-sensical

From Wiki: "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

Wonderful word.
I've had to learn R for some Epi classes this semester and, coming from doing figures/stat analysis in python, it really is a breath of fresh air. Imo, The R ecosystem for stats and figure-making just has much better "defaults" than matplotlib. That being said, I have been incredibly frustrated with R error messages and some syntactical things about the language, so I'm super happy to hear that plotnine exists.
Well, I doubt you have children. "Greater Good" can have two legs and hungry mouth.

I see opensource project that is missing usefull features and users who need them.

Why is "redirecting stream of money" towards me bad? Maybe I run orphanage and can use money more ethically...
> This is definitely illegal. But Citadel is betting that the resulting SEC fines from this illegal manipulation will be less than the loss they would get if they didn't suppress the price.

It's not really a bet when they're 50% certain they can get away with no fine, 99% certain the SEC fine will be < 10% of the profit, and 100% certain the fine won't be > 100% of the profit.
They are thenselves institutional BTC holders, so I'm not sure if they need to outsource it.

Microstrategy is using Coinbase.
Okay, I was wrong, but in that case the UI should have said why it was removed.
(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the topic at hand. (Sorry, non-JS users.))
The users have the option to buy the stock with their own money at any time. RobinHood loaned that money and decided that the risk of user default was too great, so they forced sale. I expect they did this only for the riskiest users who bought a lot of Gamestop stock on margin.
This is just more standard FB PR theater. It's not only meaningless, I would suggest it is likely intentionally deceptive as the latest way to distract from it's disingenuousness while it goes suing Apple for explicitly making it's life difficult (among other things).

Between this and the Melvin Capital/Gamestop carnival, the schadenfreude this week is on point.
What does "limited" even mean?! It's already limited to hedge funds.
Some of that "subsequent" group actually even fought a war to prevent some of our freedoms!

There's no weakness in challenging the storybook fable-ized versions of history.
I don’t believe Melvin has public investors that could claim to have traded Melvin’s shares on the basis of Melvin’s misleading statements.

And I am quite certain that there is no obligation that you have to truthfully tell the world your position in any one security.

So, I’d like someone with legal training to make a case for security fraud.

(It might still be market manipulation or some such).
It might not work with big projects but libraries and other smaller software is perfectly fine.
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"As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment."

Can anyone translate that?

It seems to be referring to:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_capital_rule

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house
A smartphone is not different from any other computer. It's simply smaller. Can't get more incremental then a reduction in size.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514822/amc-theaters-ca...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop?oldformat=true#Declin...

Blackberry probably not considered "failing" but, Gamestop, and AMC. I don't know how else to define their position
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We're in a bubble that's being used instrumentally in a game of chicken between average joe with RH account and hedge funds on their short positions.

There's more to gain from this because of the social aspect (social change and reform), but also more to lose (bubble bursting on the average citizen that has more to lose personally than a fund).

I'm obviously not cheering for the funds here, but I do worry for people like my dad who can just buy a stock more easily than order dinner.

The social movement is honorable, but at what cost? This has the shape and character of a Joker move, when does the bubble burst?
HN's application server runs on a single core.

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Pythonista is great but it hasn't been actively developed in a couple years, and I think pieces of it might be broken. But as long as you stay away from the UI-building aspect of it, it should be enough for what you need.
If it was decided that most people could only sell stock, not buy it - who exactly is buying the stock?
Yep, when I last had a memory leak (kayo in case anyone here works on it) it would refuse to process input. Couldn't close the offending tab with the mouse, couldn't switch to a terminal. All I could do was reach for the hard reset button.
> Apparently the dividing line between pro- and anti-gun isn't left versus right, but pro- versus anti- state-monopoly-on-force. If you think it's a good thing for only cops and the military to have guns, you probably think that the government tends to be a pretty good deal. If you think they should be balanced by an armed populace, you probably think that it tends to be an oppressive force.

I'm guessing there's another factor: belief in the stability (and friendliness) of the status quo. If you believe "the cops and the military" will always be on your side (whether through genuine belief or lack of imagination), then I think you'll be more receptive to gun control. If you don't take that as a given, then you'll be less receptive.

Personally, I think the election of Donald Trump should cause Democrats and cultural liberals to question their assumptions about gun control. It's not inconceivable to me that a right-wing authoritarian leader could tip the police and military towards being politicized forces with a little finesse (take an small existing bias, expand it through controversial actions around "the line" to trigger principled resignations, then cement control through purges and ideological recruitment). Add to that the fact that right-wing civilians are better armed and have proven to be receptive to a cult-of-personality. Such a leader could potentially win a civil war without firing a shot.

America was lucky Trump wasn't a "hide your strength and bide your time," kind of leader.
>how non people centric will work become? I feel being 100% remote I have even less of a relationship with anyone at home. I’m a commodity doing work. Maybe there’s more of a temptation to get that commodity cheaper elsewhere

Do not think for a second that you are not already disposable
This was an awful PR response.

I actually buy the reasoning behind it - but putting out a corporate speak like this instead of trying to emotionally relate to upset users? Smh
Uniswap is already huge.

For Bisq to succeed governments needs to clamp down on central exchanges, but so far that is not happening.
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If they hired you knowing that you don't know their stack, you have to assume they are ok with giving you time to catch up.

I think your concern is whether or not they will give you enough time.

It seems like you should ask your manager how soon they expect you to be productive and take steps to be able to meet that goal.

If you know you can't meet that goal, then bring it up. It's better for both parties to not put off the inevitable.

If you don't know if you can meet that goal, then take all steps you can to help you meet that goal and then whatever happens happens.
I understand how people are viewing this as some kind of David vs Goliath, and in a way it is. However, the freaking Goliath is made of pension funds money and David is a few hundred traders. It is very unlikely that the guy who runs Melvin will suffer significant personal financial consequences if the firm goes boom. What is going to happen when this thing escalates to citadel and whoever is backing them and whoever else who up the chain. There are no good guys here, just an incredibly screwed up and fragile system.
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if you want to see the effect without waiting.
> 1. For the first 6 months you're paying a sr. engineers salary to get jr. engineer productivity. Given that most devs switch after 2 years this is a huge productivity hit and it's all front loaded.

There's something wrong with your hiring pipeline and IC career path if that's what you are observing.

Try paying more for new hires.

> 2. While great devs are great, it's a lot easier to figure out if someone is a framework/language expert than if they are an intrinsically great dev in an interview. i.e. ("Do you know C# well?" is easier to determine than "Are you a good problem solver?")

It's easier to grade multiple choice exams as compared to essays. But the former mostly measures how well someone can rote memorize.

> 5. Most devs are searching for jobs in the ecosystems they like working in. But a lot of devs who can't find a job get desperate and start applying to everything, which can bring down average quality of people who don't have expertise.

Get a better hiring pipeline. If you start dealing with too many clueless candidates it's time to look out where they are coming from (which recruiter, school, whatever) and switching source.
I feel like that supporters count can increase due to all this mess around GME
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but now they develop a conscience and save people from themselves?

No, RH is saving their own asses from the poor financial decisions of their clients. They don't want to be on the hook when those accounts crater along with GME.

If this is true, RH and other platforms pulling smiliar stunts should be sued out of existence.

Take it up with the SEC. Oh, wait, the SEC is at least partially responsible for such rules being in place. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!
The Bill of Rights doesn’t enumerate rights for Americans, it enumerates them for everyone (outside of specific voting rights).

And those rights are only to protect you from government actions because it’s the ultimate monopoly.

The first amendment does not give you the right to enter someone else’s house to spread your political opinions, just as the second doesn’t give you the right to walk in to their home with your loaded guns.

And stop trying to redefine the word monopoly. The internet is completely free and anyone can post whatever they want on their own web site.
Robinhood routes their order flow to Citadel, who stands to directly profit from Robinhood restricting trades on GameStop. It's hard to see how Robinhood's reputation isn't absolutely destroyed after this betrayal.
Success for them would have looked like apprehending the legislature and coercing them into throwing out the votes of states that didn't go to Trump. And this is charitably assuming that their chants of "hang Mike Pence", along with the gallows they erected out front, might have only been for show.
link to sources please - like the source video, the source evidence on the failure rates, etc.

also explain why no court, no intelligence agency (local or international), and the vast majority of the US Senate (consisting of both major political parties) disagrees with your assessment.

Also if the presidential votes are invalid than I guess we need to assume all the other items on the ballet (house, senate, bills, etc) were also invalid correct?
Dual-licensing with a "free" tier for non-commercial use and a paid tier for corporate users could solve this. In fact in the future, I believe many companies will do this with software and not just SAAS behind a cloud where this model is dominating today.
How often is it supposed to change?